Conditional friendships and those arrangements...
Simply put: THEY DO NOT WORK. It's like supply and demand. And it's just produce endlessly but nothing is ever coming back to me. Not just the simplest thing that I want: an ear to listen back to me, NOT just me constantly listening and providing.
I always leave these dynamics because friendship (to me) is showing reciprocity, curiousness in the person's situations and mutual respect for one another. If that is not present, it just never works for me...
It's a chronic imbalance.